Adelaide CBD: Lot Fourteen’s new Community cafe, wine bar
A new cafe and wine bar being set up by a former Home and Away star will be the first for Adelaide’s aspiring entrepreneurial haven, Lot Fourteen, and create about 20 jobs. See the artist impressions.
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A new cafe and wine bar by former Home and Away actor Brett Hicks-Maitland will double up as Lot Fourteen’s newest watering hole when it opens in November.
The timber and steel design cafe, called Community, will be part of the restored Sheridan building and managed by Mr Hicks-Maitland, with Stepney-based restaurant Fine and Fettle owner Sam Worrall-Thompson as the executive chef.
Renewal SA has awarded the long-term tender to Mr Hicks-Maitland’s new business, Renewable Investments SA, which was registered at the end of July and also lists Noel Fahey as a director.
Community is the first cafe contracted for the precinct, catering to a current population of 800, which has the potential to grow to more than 6000 innovators and entrepreneurs and visitors to the site’s proposed Australian Space Discovery Centre and the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre.
It will employ 20 staff.
Development plans for Lot Fourteen, Adelaide’s most hyped development, were set in July this year.
“A long-term contract was awarded to Community after an open tender process which attracted a good number of high quality applications from experienced operators,” a Renewal SA spokeswoman said, with information around the contract value and term being “commercial in confidence”.
Alongside an acting career on screen and theatre, Mr Hicks-Maitland has worked in and managed bars and restaurants in Sydney, Los Angeles, and Adelaide where he worked with Mr Worrall-Thompson at Fine and Fettle.
The seasonal menu will offer “farm-to-table, low food miles produce, and daily desk-eats”.
The cafe will use compostable takeaway food and drink containers while incorporating a recycling program, which would include donating coffee grinds to a local garden centre.
The Sheridan building, constructed in 1925, features four pairs of steel-framed French doors to enable alfresco dining and Community will offer periodic entertainment in the surrounding landscaped areas.
